Sexual dualities

Code d’ Odalisque is constructed around tensions between opposites: on the one hand debauched indulgence and on the other mannered elegance. It is a system of consensual sexual slave play the purpose of which is to provide a platform for sexual exploration. An odalisque is a sexual slave. Her task is to be a vehicle for sexual gratification for her Master. Accordingly, she is an extremely sexual being; she is willing to be used in and participate in sexual indulgences that go well beyond a ‘vanilla’ range of sexual tastes. She is happy to be used as a willing accomplice in her Master’s most debauched fantasies. A man owns an odalisque because he has desires that exceed the ‘vanilla’. He owns an odalisque (cockslave) because he needs a woman who will submit to his wildest and most outrageous desires.

But all of this debauchery is framed, under the provisions of the Code, by a formal elegance and fine taste. Much of the Code concerns standards of behavior both for the slave and for the Slavekeeper. The Code includes a detailed system of etiquette that is binding upon all players. The hardcore sex that constitutes the central action of odalisque slave play takes place in an atmosphere of cordial behavior, good manners, politeness and sophistication. Code d’ Ode is not about dungeons and grunge. It is about an elegant debauchery, a sophisticated and urbane erotic indulgence.

There is always this tension under Code d’ Ode – reckless, wild, debauched in contrast with polite, mannered, sophisticated. People involved must find ways to use the provisions of the Code according to their own circumstances in order to build a creative tension between indulgence and control. This is characteristic of the cockslave herself. Her motto is: ‘Fathomless Lust. Perfect Obedience.’ She is expected to be wild, unihibited, lascivious, abandoned to sexual excess. She fucks and sucks like a crazy woman. An odalisque is expected to be lustful, cock-crazy, yearning to serve, yearning to be used and enjoyed.

But on the other hand – against this seething lust - she is expected to be well-trained, polite, compliant, self-controlled, perfectly obedient to the commands of her Master. The Code features a repertoire of postures and slave positions that the slave must learn. She learns to walk with elegance and to hold her posture well. She is well-groomed and well-spoken.

Slavekeepers too are expected to be gentlemen, even as they go about the unbridled exploration of their most profligate desires. There is a creative tension within a Slavekeeper: animal lust and gentlemanly urbanity.

Every aspect of Code d’ Ode can be understood in terms of these polarities and the tension between them. The two poles would seem to be incompatible: sexual abandon and self-restraint. The trick is to turn these polarities into a fulcrum for creative play. Above all, Code d’ Ode offers a platform for creative maledom/femsub sexuality. The source of this creativity is in the inherent contradictions between abandon and restraint. In theory and in practice Code d' Ode is driven by creative tension between opposites. It is dualistic. It sets up and then explores sexual dualities. The male dom and the female submissive is the central duality. The duality between wild lust and perfect sophistication is another expression of the same dynamic.